there's different arguments about the schools.

one is that you don't want the kids spreading it. but, i'm not sure that keeping them out of school is really going to help. are you going to cancel daycares, too? rather, this would strike me as something you can't really stop.

the argument i initially presented was that you want to keep the teachers, many of whom are older. away from the kids. but, maybe you can deal with that with substitute teachers. or, maybe a few can get the hint and fucking retire already.

a third argument is that it might actually backfire, as if you do cancel daycares and schools then you're all of a sudden stuck with a high percentage of nurses that have kids that need to stay home to deal with. this is a good point that i hadn't thought of, but it could be dealt with by opening daycares that have youngish workers. or, you could just send the older teachers home...

my understanding is that the uk is kind of dealing with a mess with this right now, as they don't want to close the schools due to the third argument, but are finding that staff levels are too low to keep a lot of them open.

and, this is maybe the only country that is doing the right thing in forcibly quarantining the elderly.

new york is also facing a lot of pushback in keeping the schools open, i would suspect under argument three, because they no doubt realize the child care mayhem it would create, which could potentially exacerbate a looming crisis.

i just don't understand why so many people think it's necessary to take these ridiculous steps, when it's so easy to just quarantine the old.